A Review Of An Assessment Of Whole Language Curriculum

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...Review of an Assessment of Whole Language Curriculum In the August 1, 1996 edition of the Journal of Educational Research, Rick Traw describes the outcome of one such study. Traw's study was designed to assess the degree of "large-scale learning of traditional reading and writing skills" attained by those students in a mid-sized midwestern school district which had committed to the implementation of whole language curriculum. Traw attempts to evaluate the curriculum to determine if it indeed met whole language principles. He first compared the curriculum with the theoretical principles outlined in the literature for whole language. He then reviewed standardized test scores which were taken previous to the implementation of the whole language curriculum and subsequent to that implementation. Interviews with both teachers and administrators were conducted to provide another area for evaluation of the...

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